Senior Attorney

Overview

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Requisition No: 869405

Agency:
Business and Professional Regulations

Working Title:

SENIOR ATTORNEY -

OPEN COMPETITIVE

Applicants must complete all fields in the Candidate Profile. Work history, hours worked, and formal education are required to qualify for this position. Responses to Qualifying Questions must be verifiable in the Candidate Profile. Resumes and other documentation can be attached to provide additional information.

Our Organization and Mission:
License efficiently. Regulate fairly. Florida counts on the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) to ensure important matters are handled well. Responsibilities range from ensuring the safety of food service, maintaining the integrity of real estate transactions, furthering the transparency of condominium governance, and of course, overseeing the qualifications of licensure that ensure work requiring a skilled professional is performed safely and sufficiently.

DBPR’s stakeholders include these professionals and their customers alike.

Under the direction of Secretary Melanie S. Griffin, DBPR oversees many of Florida’s professions and industries in the areas above, and many more which can be seen on our website:

This is a highly responsible position that serves as Deputy Chief Attorney and performs administrative prosecution of violations for assigned professions under the jurisdiction of the department, including Chapter 455, Florida Statutes, and all applicable practice acts.

Duties include, but may not be limited to:

• Provides leadership and guidance to assigned law clerks and other division employees;
• Evaluates investigative reports and evidence;
• Analyzes violations of statutes or administrative rules for regulated professions and recommends appropriate action;
• Researching/drafting/reviewing/amending pleadings, complaints, motions, dismissal orders, consent orders, settlement agreements and memoranda of law;
• Negotiates settlements;
• Reviews, edits, and evaluates proposed rule packages;
• Responds to consumer and industry inquiries;
• Prepares witnesses to testify;
• Takes and defends depositions;
• Initiates and responds to discovery;
• Prosecutes and defends enforcement actions before the Division of Administrative Hearings and the agency's informal hearing officer;
• Prosecutes and defends final orders, emergency suspension orders, declaratory judgments, and rule waiver and variance decisions;
• Provides legal advice to division staff and other agency employees.

• Ability to supervise;
• Ability to understand and apply applicable rules, regulations and policies;
• Skill in drafting legal documents;
• Skill in managing multiple complex cases;
• Ability to prioritize work;
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment;
• Ability to communicate effectively;
• Ability to conduct legal research;
• Ability to make oral presentations in court and in large groups;
• Ability to recognize and act on emerging issues and shifting priorities;
• Ability to travel.

• Must have a valid driver’s license; and
• Must be a member of The Florida Bar in good standing; and
• Must have at least two years of professional experience in the practice of law.

NOTE:

This advertisement may be used to fill multiple positions in different legal units.

“Working for the State of Florida is more than a paycheck. The State’s total compensation package for employees features a highly competitive set of employee benefits including:

• State of Florida retirement package: 3% employee contribution required.
• Nine annual paid holidays and one personal holiday.
• You will receive 104 hours of paid annual leave annually as a new employee with the State of Florida.
• You will receive 104 hours of paid sick leave annually.
• The State of Florida offers health insurance coverage (i.e. individual and family coverage) to eligible employees.
• The State of Florida provides a $25,000 life insurance policy to eligible employees.
• Additional…